A presentation I have given about Maven basic use for Android project

1. Maven
Hussain Mansoor
Folio3 (26 Feb 2014)

2. Maven defined
 Declarative Dependencies
 External modules
 Build Order
 Directories
 Plug-ins
 Build Management
 Downloads dependencies and maintains local
cache

3. Support
 Languages
 Primarily Java
 C#, Ruby, Scala
 IDEs
 Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ (by default), Jbuilder,
Jdeveloper, MyEclipse…

4. Build Life cycle
 process-resources
 compile
 process-test-resources
 test-compile
 test
 package
 install
 deploy

5.  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 <groupId>com.project</groupId>
 <artifactId>Project</artifactId>
 <version>1.1</version>
 <packaging>apk</packaging>
 <name>Project-Maven</name>

6.  Dependencies
 Scope
 compile, runtime, test, system, and provided
 System path
 Local path, deprecated
 groupId
 artifactId
 Packaging
 apk, jar, …

7. Tags defined
• A universally unique identifier for a project. It is
normal to use a fully-qualified package name to
distinguish it from other projects with a similar name
(eg. org.apache.maven, com.project)
 The identifier for this artifact that is unique
within the group given by the group ID. An
artifact is something that is either produced or
used by a project. Examples of artifacts
produced by Maven for a project include: JARs,
source and binary distributions, and WARs.
 E.g: android, mockito-all, junit

8. The central repository
 Online central repository which hosts all the
dependencies
 Can search from group-id, artifact-id, version
 Can also download jars, pom, etc

9. How to use?
 POM (pom.xml) file is the main file all the xml data
in it.
 Dependent projects (if any) should also have
pom
 There are 3 major parts:
 Add dependencies
 add dependencies with local path
 add dependencies of custom jars (not in maven)

10. <build>
<plugins> <plugin>
<groupId>com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2
</groupId>
<artifactId>android-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.8.0</version>
<configuration>
<sdk> <platform>8</platform></sdk>
</configuration>
</plugin> </plugins>
</build>

11. How to add
dependencies<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.10</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

12. Local .jar file
 mvn install:install-file
-DgroupId=com.personagraph
-DartifactId=richinsights
-Dversion=1.4
-Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=libs/AndroidSDK-1.4-
SNAPSHOT.jar

13. cmd
 mvn clean
 mvn test
 mvn compile
 mvn deploy

16. Issues with Andriod
 Maven 3.1.1 is required with Android version 3.8.0
 Google-services aren’t supported
 Create a local jar and include them

17. References
 http://maven.apache.org
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Maven